Malcolm Baker

Malcolm Baker rowed at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics in the eight, just missing a medal with a fourth-place finish. He also rowed at the 1990 and 1991 World Championships, in the coxed four in 1990 and the eight in 1991. Baker rowed in college at Brown University helping win an NCAA title as a freshman. He graduated with degrees in applied mathematics and economics, and then earned a M.Phil from Cambridge University in 1993, where he competed in The Boat Race against Oxford. Baker received a Ph.D. from Harvard in business economics in 2000.

After finishing graduate school Baker joined the Harvard Business School in 2000, becoming a full professor of finance by 2007. He has been widely published, and served as an associate editor for the Journal of Finance and the Review of Financial Studies. Baker has twice been nominated for the Smith Breeden Prize and three times was nominated for the Brattle Prize. In 2002 he won the Brattle Prize, along with co-author Jeffrey Wurgler, for his paper “Market Timing and Capital Structure.”